We booked this cruise to celebrate our venture into being empty nesters. We wanted complete and utter relaxation, great food and luxurious treatment...we got everything we asked for, and more.

We arrived in Florida the day before, stayed with family and headed to the port early Sunday morning. We arrived just about 10am, had a minimal wait to get through security, more because the large group in front of us had struggles with passports and paperwork and less because of the port personnel. We easily found the Haven checkin location - it is literally immediately after security to the left. We entered, had a short wait to check in, longest part of check in came when the young man had to leave the room to go reprint one of our key cards, because it wasn't working. We then waited about 5 minutes and were escorted upstairs. We waited there for about 20 minutes and were escorted onto the ship. We went up to the Haven for a quick orientation, dropped our bags in our room (wasn't quite ready to park in, but we were allowed access), and headed to Margaritaville for lunch.

Our lunch at Margaritaville was our least memorable. I was not impressed. The service was wonderful, the food was ok, and the atmosphere quiet, but with so much really good included food on board, we weren't drawn to go back. Read more